Per-capita contribution to Staff Benefit Fund will be increased from Rs 30 to Rs 35 per year.

Condition of Railway Staff colonies to be improved

50 room rest houses will be built near the Railway hospitals in the four metropolitan cities for stay of relatives of the patients.

An extensive training programme will be launched to inculcate market and customer oriented approach in frontline staff.

A committee has been constituted to improve promotion prospects of Group 'D' employees.

Previous service tenure of ex-servicemen and central government employees recruited by Railways, will be added to their existing service tenure in the Railways while calculating eligibility for post retirement complimentary passes

Organisational and Human Resource Development

Training of Railway employees and officers to be reoriented towards changing economic and competitive environment

Institutions of GMs, DRMs, CAOs (Construction) to be strengthened and empowered for development as business units, profit centres and project units respectively.

Railway Staff College, Vadodara will be renovated as heritage building

A Railway chair will be established at IIM/Ahmedabad for research in railway infrastructure and management

Special Recruitment Drives

95% of the vacancies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have been filled through special drives and 75% of backlog in the promotional quota has been cleared.

Action is being taken to fulfill the stipulated 27% quota of the OBC candidates.

Passenger Services

8 new Garib Raths to be introduced

New Trains : 32 pairs

Extension of Trains : 23 pairs

Increase in Frequency : 14 pairs

Annual Plan 2007-08

The Annual Plan of Rs 31,000 cr is the largest ever Annual Plan so far, whichincludes:

�Support of Rs 7,611 cr from General Revenues.

�Internal Generation of Rs 17,323 cr.

�Extra Budgetary Resources of Rs 5,740 cr.

The thrust of the annual plan is to maintain the high growth in traffic, by focusing on early completion of works for throughput enhancement on high traffic density routes, improvementof traffic facilities and enhancing sectional capacity.

vHigh Density Network to be made suitable for running of Heavy Axle load trains